On 14.12.2010 11:53 Thraalbeast wrote:Ironman is reallly fun but difficult.
For this one I was unfortunate to find only the second prayer book in the temple, but Maggot was kind enough to drop +4 agility gloves. Selling those enabled buying nice sling and magic ammo and quite a few phase door and other consumables.
Still missing book 3 but now I have Robe of Permanence and FrAct which I did not on last somewhat successful attempt in which in the end I had to be too aggressive after book2 was burnt to cinders and I was out of food. That one died vs ghoul due to paralys. This one... maybe a future winner? Don't really care at this point, really enjoying the game.

Have now realized that playing a dwarf priest is not only convenient compared to the fighter, it's quite powerful too - OoD and Blink are great versus company and the more, the merrier. Also nearly free access to Heal means being able to keep near max hp most of the time.

This is the first time I'm using randarts. Not sure if I like it more or less yet. Definitly more exciting id'ing a newfound artifact.
Found a +3 wis mace early and then a blessed +4 wis Lance at dlvl 30, that helped a lot, otherwise a few artifact Picks and semipowerful stuff so far.

Wondering about PB*, can learn 19 more spells but don't find any books. To shallow yet I guess.

On 6.1.2011 21:11 Thraalbeast wrote:Ooops, I see the first comment is for an Ironman attempt -
must start to enumerate my characters or change name.
I did enjoy Ironman for a while, but then realized never having played either Ironman or Priest before made it unnecessary challenging. So, it's a normal game again.

On 9.1.2011 12:54 Thraalbeast wrote:Looking good.
Can learn 20+ spells but don't find any new pb's, where are they?

Now looking for rChaos and ESP, but mainly more priest spell books. I guess keep diving is the only option.

On 10.1.2011 23:33 Thraalbeast wrote:Better and better! Just cleared a big open vault on dLvl 50. Had to teleport out Feagwath + Ar-Pharazon and banish all L's (7x Black Reavers, 5x Arch Liches, 5x Demiliches, 6x Master Liches) but still had to fight a huge number of demons, dragons and undead. Priests do rock, although in a different way than fighters!

Now would be nice with rNexus from other source than the unblessed weapon I use. Also to get another rShards so I can use my Cloak of Magi with ESP. Also I've now found a very nice set of +10 boots of speed, but the randard boots give +3 speed + rDis & rNthr which I prefer. Swapping would work but...

On 15.1.2011 07:11 Thraalbeast wrote:Getting near the end game. Some good luck so far but nothing extreme, found a randart rapier that does 628 points of damage to undead without any damage or brand rings or gauntlets. Until now my weaps has been 175 to 215 and similar so I've been relying on spells. Still, I need something better for the unique A's.
iFire would also be very useful.

On 16.1.2011 05:48 Thraalbeast wrote:End game left now. cLvl 50 dLvl 77. All books, ESP, all resistances except Sound and decent weaps. Have had a hard time with unique angels, don't do damage enough. A bit better with this setup but evil foes are preferrable!

On 17.1.2011 05:38 Thraalbeast wrote:Got some more nice stuff. iFire would be very useful now.

On 20.1.2011 16:25 Thraalbeast wrote:End game time soon. Just gotta clear off the Tarrasque and a few ringwraiths fist. With iFire as well as iCold this might be easier than last time with fighter, we'll see. Hopefully live and see.

On 21.1.2011 18:55 Thraalbeast wrote:Nice upgrades... Powerdragon scale mail enables change from gauntlets with resists to gloves of dex & str. Now I can use the very nice randart mace of disruption - Average damage/round = 839 vs undead. Not bad. Acid ring enables same damage to Sauron (unless he has iAcid in 3.2) but then speed is probably to low. Only drawback is WIS is not fully maxed when using MoD so I have to carry a blessed wis +4 weapon as well.

On 28.1.2011 19:05 Thraalbeast wrote:Priest is a good starter character. Fun and very powerful.

First third of the dungeon was harder than with my previous winner, a half troll fighter.
Second third more or less the same in difficulty. Last third was easier although Sauron was worse - he didn't even make my fighter flinch whereas my Priest had to fight him for a while and summons were a bit taxing.

But... fighting Morgoth in an optimal corner in a vault where his summons could be ignored, being a priest was outright easy.

Of course Morgoth would still have won if he had double mana stormed me more often, then the risk for holy word to fail between the attacks (5% risk) would have accumulated to a high percentage. Of course I did have potions, but... this was his only chance so I had to leave him that.